US6210733B1 - Method for dividing a cubed block of deep frozen food into portions with a precise volume - Google Patents

Method for dividing a cubed block of deep frozen food into portions with a precise volume Download PDF

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US6210733B1
US6210733B1 US09/423,586 US42358699A US6210733B1 US 6210733 B1 US6210733 B1 US 6210733B1 US 42358699 A US42358699 A US 42358699A US 6210733 B1 US6210733 B1 US 6210733B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23B—PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS
    • A23B4/00—General methods for preserving meat, sausages, fish or fish products
    • A23B4/06—Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling
    • A23B4/062—Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling the materials being transported through or in the apparatus with or without shaping, e.g. in the form of powder, granules or flakes
    • A23B4/064—Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling the materials being transported through or in the apparatus with or without shaping, e.g. in the form of powder, granules or flakes with packages or with shaping in the form of blocks or portions
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23L—FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES A21D OR A23B-A23J; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL
    • A23L3/00—Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general, e.g. pasteurising, sterilising, specially adapted for foods or foodstuffs
    • A23L3/36—Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling
    • A23L3/361—Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling the materials being transported through or in the apparatus, with or without shaping, e.g. in form of powder, granules, or flakes
    • A23L3/362—Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling the materials being transported through or in the apparatus, with or without shaping, e.g. in form of powder, granules, or flakes with packages or with shaping in form of blocks or portions
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23P—SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS
    • A23P30/00—Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the process or apparatus
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  • the invention relates to a process for dividing into portions a rectangular parallelopipedal block of deep frozen food, especially fish or meat, by a multistage subdivision into smaller equal-size and especially parallelopipedal units from stage to stage with straight cut surfaces and whereby finally the smallest units can have a desired final shape by press reforming.
  • the portions cannot have an excess volume since the product would be overpressed giving a loss in quality. They should not have too small a volume because then the portions will not be satisfactorily reshaped.
  • the cutting planes in the last stage do not have to consider the lengths of the units made in the penultimate stage with respect to the desired weight and the desired volume of the portions and can be subdivided into these portions because the residue of each of the units arrayed in the row and that as a rule does not correspond to the desired weight of a portion is made up by a starting portion of the next unit of the row so that weightwise the portion at the junction of the rows will correspond to the portions of the precise weight desired.
  • the last subdivision stage is a loss-free shearing. It is not important whether the portions retain their integrity or break up somewhat at the cutting edges. It is also not important whether the food adheres together at the boundary surfaces between the individual slabs or successively arrayed units or not. Since the total volume of the portion remains together for the subsequent pressing operation it is provided that the material from the shearing process be transferred directed to a pressing mold.
  • such a block is subjected to multiple subdivisions in new cutting planes.
  • the saws which have been found successful in practice permit a minimum cutting kerf of 0.6 mm to be obtained.
  • the slice with a weight of less than 100 g will remain, from the gapfree contiguous plate which follows, the slice is sheared off with the weight making up the difference to 100 g so that even in the transition regions from one plate to the next, a weight-precise portion is obtained.
  • 73 portions are formed exactly with the weight of 100 g and only the last portion will have a weight of 94.4 g. Since in practice the strand is endless because the similar subdivision of further blocks is followed by alignment thereof in the row, only at the end of the fabrication process is there a maximum of one portion which does not have precisely the desired weight of 100 g.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing cutting lines according to the invention
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 are plan views showing the principles of the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a cross sectional view showing an apparatus for practicing the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a standard block of deep frozen fish with dimensions of 482 mm ⁇ 254 mm ⁇ 62.7 mm and a block weight of 7.484 kg. It is indicated where the individual cutting planes between the slabs 1 to 6 run.
  • the cutting planes between the slabs between 1 and 4, 2 and 5 and 3 and 6 can, as has been shown, run parallel to the broad sides; they can however also be inclined thereto so that in an extreme case, two slabs are obtained which are triangular in cross section.
  • band saws are used which have only a very thin kerf of 0.6 mm. The cutting loss is correspondingly small.
  • the removed material can, as is known, be collected and reapplied to the slabs which further minimizes the cutting losses.
  • FIG. 2 a strand formed from the slabs 1 to 6 is shown where the slabs are arranged gaplessly one after the other. Considering that in the first two cutting stages losses cannot be completely avoided, the weight of the strand is 7.3944 kg.
  • the strand according to FIG. 2 is shown with the shearing planes indicated. It can be seen that with a slice thickness of 20.61 mm, the shearing planes do not coincide with the planes at which individual slabs 1 to 6 abut.
  • the yield of 100 g portions from six slabs with a thickness of 20.61 mm amounts to 73 pieces with one piece having a weight of 94.4 g. The yield of 100 g portions is thus 99%. This yield can, it will be understood, be raised as more slabs are added to the strand since then the last portion must be divided by the greater total weight in calculating the yield.
  • FIG. 4 in side view it is shown how the sheared off smallest portions are transferred to a pressing mold.
  • a stationary table T is provided over which the slabs 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 arrayed in a row is transported in the direction of the arrow P 1 to a shear S 1 , S 2 .
  • trough-shaped lower parts F 1 of a pressing mold are transported.
  • a slice SC is sheared off from the slab 1 , it then falls into the trough shaped lower part F 1 of the press mold.
  • This lower part with the slices SC is advanced beneath the movable ram F 2 whereby the slice is pressed into the desired final shape by the shaping press.

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PCT/EP1998/001836 WO1998052725A1 (de) 1997-05-22 1998-03-28 Verfahren zum portionieren eines quaderförmigen blockes aus tiefgefrorenem lebensmittel in volumengenaue portionen

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US4072763A (en) 1976-09-20 1978-02-07 Clyde Mart Meat product and method of making same
US4192899A (en) 1977-03-17 1980-03-11 Roth Eldon N Method for forming frozen meat patties
US4474823A (en) 1981-05-19 1984-10-02 Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. Method of forming fillets
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US4626436A (en) 1984-07-12 1986-12-02 Stein Associates, Inc. Frozen block process for vegetable or fruit convenience foods
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